Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Cambro-Ordovician Siliciclastic Units of the Humber Arm Allochthon, Newfoundland, Canada

• Main Author: Gittens, Adrian 1979-
• Other Authors: Casey, John F., Lapen, Thomas J., Dewey, John F., Reid, Doug A.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Zircon; Humber Arm Allochton; Geology; Canada; Makkovik; Newfoundland; Sunda; Labrador region; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10657/536

Paleogeographic reconstruction of the Newfoundland area suggests that various arc terranes developed during the opening of the Iapetus Ocean and development of the Cambro-Ordovician Laurentian stable continental margin. These terranes were then accereted to the continental passive-margin upon initia...